After composing himself, Wu Yong joined the line in front of the Enforcement Team.
Before long, an Enforcement Team member dressed in a fitted black uniform, with a sword-shaped badge pinned to his chest, appeared before Wu Yong holding some kind of pill that could detect killing intent.
"I'm here to register. I shouldn't need to take that kind of pill, right?"
"Register?"
The Enforcement Team member sized Wu Yong up. He looked utterly ordinary, with somewhat messy short black hair and a travel-worn appearance.
However, the most noticeable thing about him was the medicinal scent clinging to his body.
Still, his features were indeed quite youthful, fitting the academy's age requirements.
Moreover, quite a few people had come to register recently. This young man was not an exception.
"Alright, come with me."
Before long, Wu Yong and the Enforcement Team member arrived beside an enormous black stone monument.
A middle-aged man dressed in the same fitted black uniform sat beside the monument behind a small table, staring at a parchment scroll on the table.
Hearing the footsteps of the Enforcement Team member and Wu Yong, the middle-aged man raised his head, gave Wu Yong a brief look, and pointed at the stone monument.
"You're here to register, right? Go test your cultivation first. Send your Dou Qi into that monument."
A few seconds later, the middle-aged man and the Enforcement Team member who had brought Wu Yong over both fell silent as they stared at the glowing words on the monument.
Five-Star Dou Zhe!
"Young brother, may I ask your name, your age this year, and whether you have a teacher you wish to register under?"
A smile quickly appeared on the middle-aged man's face, making the Enforcement Team member beside him twitch his lips.
As expected of you, Captain!
"You're too polite, sir. My name is Wu Yong. I'm still a few months shy of sixteen, and I have an agreement with Instructor Ruolin from Yellow Class 2."
"Little Brother Wu Yong... so you're fifteen this year, correct?"
The Enforcement Team Captain had already felt that this youth was quite young, but he had never expected him to be only fifteen and already a Five-Star Dou Zhe. He had assumed that boys this age would at most be at the eighth or ninth stage of Dou Qi.
At the same time, he could not help but feel envious of Ruolin, the instructor of Yellow Class 2. That woman had only recently become an Outer Academy instructor, yet her luck was truly incredible!
Other instructors might not encounter such a super genius in their entire lives, while she had found one not long after taking up her position.
Seeing Wu Yong nod, the Enforcement Team Captain thought for a moment and did not ask further.
He did not believe there could be any issue with a super genius of this caliber. Surely no faction would be so extravagant?
"Instructor Ruolin is indeed still in the academy. In a while, you can ride a Griffin into the academy together with the other new students who have passed the admission requirements. How does that sound?"
"Alright, then I'll trouble you, sir."
Wu Yong did not see any problem with the arrangement. He followed the Enforcement Team member to a room nearby to rest, where there were many other new students like him who had just passed the assessment.
About a quarter of an hour later, all the new students stared wide-eyed at the enormous Griffin before them.
Wu Yong was no exception. It was also his first time being so close to a beast whose height alone reached seven or eight meters.
It was like a moving villa.
When everyone climbed onto the massive beast, they made quite a spectacle of themselves and ended up covered in dust.
The Griffin's wings were extremely slippery, apart from the area in the middle meant for passengers. Many people exerted tremendous effort, only to discover they had not moved at all before sliding back down those slick wings.
Wu Yong, meanwhile, controlled the wind-attributed energy around him to create several footholds on the Griffin's wings, then climbed aboard with ease.
This was also Jia Nan Academy's first lesson for these new students: making them recognize themselves.
However, the lesson did not last long. With the help of several Enforcement Team members, the new students soon all boarded the Griffin.
Before long, the Griffin's enormous wings stirred up powerful currents and carried everyone into the sky.
Everything on the ground rapidly shrank away, while colder high-altitude winds swept over the group.
The flight lasted a long time. Since they had to accommodate many new students still at the Dou Qi stage, the Griffin did not fly too quickly.
It was not until the sun rose the next day that everyone arrived at Canaan City, where Jia Nan Academy was located.
The Griffin slowly landed at the flight station within Canaan City, and Wu Yong quietly dispersed the energy barrier around his body.
Led by the Enforcement Team members, the new students headed toward Jia Nan Academy.
Along the way, they caught a glimpse of this vast city.
They had already seen the enormous city from the sky, but now that they were personally walking through it, the impression was even deeper.
A quarter of an hour later, everyone finally arrived at this ancient academy with a history spanning several centuries.
At the academy gates, Ruolin, radiating a gentle and mature aura, immediately waved when she saw the familiar youth.
"Wu Yong!"
In the blink of an eye, half a year passed, and Wu Yong had completely adapted to life cultivating at the academy.
Compared to the treacherous Black-Corner Region, Wu Yong could relax greatly at Jia Nan Academy. He no longer needed to remain constantly alert to every little disturbance around him.
He only needed to devote himself wholeheartedly to cultivation and study. As for everything else, it had little to do with him, a newly advanced Dou Shi.
Considering that even after advancing to Dou Shi, the probability of white traits still remained as high as ninety-eight percent, Wu Yong knew that his wisest next step was to continue developing the Golden Legend-grade trait talent, [Son of Wind].
Barring any surprises, this situation might even continue for decades, or perhaps centuries.
"Wu Yong!"
A gentle call interrupted Wu Yong, who was lying on a tree with his eyes closed in thought.
Flipping down, Wu Yong quickly came before Instructor Ruolin, whose face was filled with a smile.
"Instructor."
"I knew you'd be here, kid. Come with me. Your observation period is over."
Instructor Ruolin spoke lightly, and delight quickly appeared on Wu Yong's face. He followed closely behind her toward the academy's central district.
As an ancient academy of the Dou Qi Continent, Jia Nan Academy naturally possessed unique advantages that drew an endless stream of new students from great distances to study here.
That was right: cultivation methods and Dou Techniques!
For students with exceptional talent, the academy allowed them to borrow cultivation methods and Dou Techniques below the Earth Tier at an extremely low price.
The better a student's talent, the higher the grade of cultivation methods and Dou Techniques they could borrow, and the lower the price they had to pay.
However, this only applied to their first time borrowing cultivation methods and Dou Techniques. The price for subsequent borrowings would become increasingly higher, warning students not to bite off more than they could chew.
Wu Yong was different from the others, though. His origins were unknown, and he had grown up in the Black-Corner Region, so the academy needed to observe his conduct for a period of time.
After all, the academy could not simply invite a wolf into its home, could it?
Furthermore, Instructor Ruolin told Wu Yong on the way that this time, he could borrow both a high-grade Mystic Tier cultivation method and Dou Technique at once. Unlike the others, he would not need to choose between a cultivation method and a Dou Technique.
In a sense, this could be considered the academy's compensation for Wu Yong's emotional distress?
Wu Yong could accept that. After all, the Black-Corner Region's reputation was indeed a little...
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